Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things . |
| 2 | Motorways are dangerous enough place at the best of times . |
| 3 | The investments are reported at the lower of cost and net current value , the latter based on the enterprises ' most recent accounts . |
| 4 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 5 | ( I 'm always , in my innermost being , the starving actor — you know , the one who shouts ‘ Quick , auditions at the National for chorus and scene shifting . ’ |
| 6 | He died in the Pyrenees , quite young , of pneumonia , attended at the last by the officious H. G. Wells , who describes his mercy mission to the bedside of his friend in his autobiography . |
| 7 | ‘ And you have ? ’ said Bob , nibbling at the last of his cheese . |
| 8 | ‘ Which does n't go far beyond maim , raze , kill at the best of times , if you remember , ’ Rosheen said . |
| 9 | Looking at the best of chemical engineering within AEA is what the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service will be focusing on in a two day conference starting on 30 November 1993 . |
| 10 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Anyone looking at the two of them would think that they were lovers . |
| 12 | Whilst we talk freely about a " car " when looking at the thousands of bits ( or entities , in CAD terms ) there is no one part that contains the " true essence of a car " . |
| 13 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 14 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 15 | Around 5pm Michaela arrives at The Ritzy by car from London . |
| 16 | Only Shotover , a Shavian figure seeking a ‘ mind ray ’ that will destroy his enemies , tries to unite wisdom and power ; and even he is revealed at the last as a rum-soaked old poseur . |
| 17 | It requires that such transfers should be made at the lower of cost and net realisable value at the date of transfer . |
| 18 | Borings made at the deepest of the present pits have failed to find any bottom to the deposit . |
| 19 | Look at the two of you , congratulating yourselves on having just donated blood during Tuesday 's emergency ! ’ |
| 20 | Now if we look at the first of these in terms of structure we can see that it can be defined as a dramatic exercise , fulfilling the principal requisite of exercise as outlined in Chapter Three — a commitment to a short-term task . |
| 21 | Just look at the three of you . ’ |
| 22 | Current asset investments are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value , although for transferable securities held as current assets the higher of cost and market value may be adopted . |
| 23 | Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . |
| 24 | Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . |
| 25 | Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . |
| 26 | In order to conform with SSAP9 , companies must include a note in their accounts to the effect that : ’ Stocks are valued at the lower of cost or net realisable value . |
| 27 | In order to conform with SSAP9 , most companies include a note in their annual accounts to the effect that : ’ The individual parcels of freehold land held for development are valued at the lower of cost or estimated net realisable value . |
| 28 | Alternatively an even briefer statement is sometimes included , such as : ’ Stocks and land , including development costs and construction thereon , are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . ’ |
| 29 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( including all relevant overhead expenditure and external sub-contractor costs of processing stock ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs ] after making due allowance for obsolete items , slow moving items , unusable items , unsaleable items and nonstandard items . |
| 30 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( calculated as direct materials and labour and an appropriate allocation of manufacturing overhead ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs and disposal costs ] . |